Cent

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 19

sent, n. a hundred: an American coin—the hundredth part of a dollar.— ns. Cent′age , rate by the hundred; Cent′al , a weight of 100 lb. proposed for general adoption, legalised in 1878.— Per cent. , by the hundred. [L. centum , a hundred.]